protirement
Early retirement from professional work with the positive idea of pursuing something…Early retirement from professional work with the positive idea of pursuing something more fulfilling.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)Early retirement from professional work with the positive idea of pursuing something more fulfilling.
1998, John S. Murphy, Frederic M. Hudson The Joy of Old, Geode Press, 1998, (Amazon.Com book review), Retire? Thats something you do to a wheel. The authors suggest Protirement instead
Origin
Blend of pro- + retirement; coined by Arthur Godfrey, according to the article Let's ProtiBlend of pro- + retirement; coined by Arthur Godfrey, according to the article Let's Protire, The American Mercury, January 1961.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable